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Bookkeeper of Auschwitz Oskar Groening, 96, declared fit for prison
Posted on 8/2/17 at 7:43 pm
Posted on 8/2/17 at 7:43 pm
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A former SS officer known as the Bookkeeper of Auschwitz has been declared fit to go to prison.
Oskar Groening was convicted in July 2015 of being an accessory to the murder of 300,000 Jews and sentenced to four years in prison.
Oskar Gröning
Oskar Gröning (sometimes transliterated as Oscar Groening in English; born 10 June 1921) is a German former SS junior squad leader who was stationed at Auschwitz concentration camp. His responsibilities included counting and sorting the money taken from prisoners, and he was in charge of the personal property prisoners had arrived with. On a few occasions he witnessed the procedures of mass-killing in the camp. After being transferred from Auschwitz to a combat unit in October 1944, Gröning was captured by the British on 10 June 1945 when his unit surrendered. He was eventually transferred to Britain as a prisoner of war and worked as a forced labourer.
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Posted on 8/2/17 at 7:48 pm to DavidTheGnome
Is there no statute of limitations to this kind of charge? I guess obviously not, but I'm willing to bet this man has faced personal demons far worse than prison in his lifetime.
That being said, it is hard to muster up any sympathy for an SS officer and this is a small price to pay compared to the innocent people slaughtered at Auschwitz.
That being said, it is hard to muster up any sympathy for an SS officer and this is a small price to pay compared to the innocent people slaughtered at Auschwitz.
Posted on 8/2/17 at 7:52 pm to Ross
Part of me thinks at 96 years old this is an ugly part of history and imprisoning him now serves little point other than retribution. The other part of me thinks frick him, its retribution for his part of the Holocaust.
Posted on 8/2/17 at 7:52 pm to DavidTheGnome
That is absurd. Dude didn't actually kill anyone.
Posted on 8/2/17 at 7:54 pm to DavidTheGnome
Thank God they finally got the guy who wrote stuff down.
Posted on 8/2/17 at 7:55 pm to DavidTheGnome
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Part of me thinks at 96 years old this is an ugly part of history and imprisoning him now serves little point other than retribution. The other part of me thinks frick him, its retribution for his part of the Holocaust.
It's good. It tells every other perpetrator of atrocities that the world will never forget.
Posted on 8/2/17 at 7:58 pm to DavidTheGnome
At age 96 I'm sure he did Nazi this coming.
Posted on 8/2/17 at 7:59 pm to DavidTheGnome
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Upon his return to Germany he led a normal life, reluctant to talk about his time in Auschwitz. However, more than 40 years later, he decided to make his activities at Auschwitz public after learning about Holocaust denial. He has since openly criticised those who deny the events that he witnessed, and the ideology to which he once subscribed. The recorded accounts he provided to the BBC, however, contributed to the decision and ability to prosecute him. His record as an activist against Holocaust deniers since 1985 was not taken into consideration.
Loose lips... sinks ships. Even when your cause is just. Perhaps he was attempting to right a wrong in his life. Well... that got him a prison sentence.
Posted on 8/2/17 at 8:01 pm to Wildcat In Germany
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That is absurd. Dude didn't actually kill anyone.
No but he still helped facilitate it. He's complicit even if he didn't pull the trigger.
Posted on 8/2/17 at 8:04 pm to DavidTheGnome
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No but he still helped facilitate it. He's complicit even if he didn't pull the trigger.
You don't always get to choose your orders. You can be born in Germany, forced into the army during a world war, and be stationed at Auschwitz. Just saying
Not the case for all, but the case for a lot.
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Posted on 8/2/17 at 8:04 pm to DavidTheGnome
He spilled his guts on what he did 30+ years ago and now that he's 96 they're going to lock him up? Such an odd story. I'm not taking a position here exactly cause I don't suppose I have a problem with punishing genociders under any circumstance, it's just really peculiar.
Posted on 8/2/17 at 8:04 pm to DavidTheGnome
So is the old lady who baked bread for the guards...the 17 year old kid who walked the fence...the german who was crippled at the eastern front who ended up there cause that was his orders...c'mon man.
If you guys use this formula there are hundreds if not thousands who should go too.
If you guys use this formula there are hundreds if not thousands who should go too.
Posted on 8/2/17 at 8:06 pm to DavidTheGnome
Put a bat to him like in inglorious bastards
Posted on 8/2/17 at 8:09 pm to Foy
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Only on the PoliBoard will you find people wishing for Holocaust 2.
Flip what people say on this board only replace Muslim with jew and you get banned
Posted on 8/2/17 at 8:09 pm to goldennugget
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Flip what people say on this board only replace Muslim with jew and you get banned
Yeah. You really have to be the right kind of racist here.
Posted on 8/2/17 at 8:11 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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Holy shite, this thing is getting upvoted?
Some bigotry is accepted here, other bigotry is not
I guess you just have to hate the right groups of people
Posted on 8/2/17 at 8:12 pm to Foy
Because Muslim is a race.
Posted on 8/2/17 at 8:17 pm to texag7
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Put a bat to him like in inglorious bastards
Now just put your Wienerschnitzel linking finger where the other Nazis are.
Posted on 8/2/17 at 8:27 pm to cokebottleag
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Because Muslim is a race.
Sorry - you are right, bigot would have been a better term. Although, I don't think anyone here would really be accepting of people from the Middle East regardless of religion.
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